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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Recently, Naomi Seidman, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, <a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/news/seidman-travels-warsaw-home-her-father-his-diary">traveled to Warsaw</a> in commemoration of the uprising and the publication of her father's diary into Polish. Upon her return, <em>the j</em> profiled the important work her father did. An excerpt follows:</p>
<p class="rteindent1">“My father was the archivist of the pre-war Warsaw Jewish community,” Seidman said in an interview. “He wrote in Polish, Hebrew and Yiddish, and was a Ph.D. of Jewish history.”</p>
<p class="rteindent1">Seidman’s ghetto archives often are overshadowed by the famous Emmanuel Ringelblum Archives — a treasure trove of diaries, memoirs, artwork and artifacts buried in 1943 in three caches, two of which were found a few years after the war. Those materials are now housed in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. ...</p>
<p class="rteindent1">Hillel Seidman’s life was quite different. Whereas Ringelblum was a secular Marxist, Seidman was a Hassidic Jew, though a bit of an iconoclast. He spoke French, was well read and highly educated. Before the war, he served his community as official archivist.</p>
<p class="rteindent1">He took those skills with him to the ghetto. There, he found a job as archivist and secretary to the Judenrat, the Jewish council set up by the Nazis to maintain order in the ghetto. His diary, written in Yiddish, offers a fascinating glimpse into life in the ghetto, and scholars have studied it ever since.</p>
<p><small>Original article <a href="http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/68426/berkeley-scholar-exalts-father-who-archived-life-in-the-ghetto/">"Berkeley scholar exalts father who archived life in the ghetto"</a></small></p>
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</ul>Thu, 02 May 2013 19:19:14 +0000communications1317 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/news/cjs-director-seidman-remembers-her-father-who-documented-life-warsaw-ghetto#commentsSeidman travels to Warsaw, home of her father and his diaryhttp://gtu.edu/news/seidman-travels-warsaw-home-her-father-his-diary
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, received an invitation to Warsaw by Anna Cialowicz, the Polish translator of Hillel Seidman's “Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto.” Hillel was a Jewish historian, Yiddish journalist, and community activist, in addition to being Naomi's late father. The diary will be published in Poland this spring, coinciding with the seventieth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest Jewish revolt of World War II.</p>
<p>As a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, Hillel recorded the events leading up to the Uprising, which lasted from April 19 to May 16 in 1943.</p>
<p>Seidman explains, “My father had already been deported by then, but his diary provides important information about the participation of Orthodox Jews in the Underground, and the preparations for the Uprising. With the publication of his diary in Poland, this aspect of the story will finally be known in the city in which my father lived, studied, and witnessed the end of the Jewish life he had known, researched, and served.</p>
<p>“My father received his Ph.D. in 1940 at the University of Warsaw, but was never able to find an academic position. He was a member of the ‘Lost Generation’ of Jewish students who studied under Majer Balaban, the only Jewish Studies professor with a position in a Polish university. I sometimes see my own work, in part, as a <em>tikkun</em> for this loss, in my attempt to keep the memory of my father and his world alive.”</p>
<p>Along with attending a number of events commemorating the Uprising, Seidman will be speaking about her father and his diary at the Nozik Synagogue on Sunday, April 21, as part of the Jewish community's Nizkor memorial program.</p>
<p>Cialowicz will also take Seidman on a tour of her father’s Warsaw, insofar as it can still be found in a largely reconstructed post-war city.</p>
<p>“My father died in 1995, a week before I began to teach at the GTU. In some ways that letter from Anna has brought him back to me as I research his legacy in preparation for this talk, while also bringing me back to the city of his youth, education, and diary.”</p>
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</ul>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:14:43 +0000communications1296 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/news/seidman-travels-warsaw-home-her-father-his-diary#commentsNaomi Seidman to Deliver Carleton College’s Forkosh Lecture in Judaic Studieshttp://gtu.edu/news/naomi-seidman-deliver-carleton-college%E2%80%99s-forkosh-lecture-judaic-studies
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<p>Naomi Seidman, a scholar who specializes in Jewish culture and literature, will deliver Carleton College’s annual Forkosh Family Lecture in Judaic Studies and Religion on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Severance Great Hall. Entitled “The Marriage Plot: Sexuality, Secularization and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Literature,” Seidman’s lecture will explore how the secularizing trends of the 18th and 19th centuries worked through art and literature to influence Jewish sexual norms. This event is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Naomi Seidman is Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies and Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. Her scholarly work has focused on the relationship between literature, sexuality and Judaism. Her most recent book, <em>Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation</em> (U. of Chicago Press, 2006), looks at how the difficult relationship between Christians and Jews has influenced the often contested translation of Jewish texts into Western languages. Seidman is also the author of <em>A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish</em> (U. of California Press, 1997), which looks at the gender-related issues underlying the close relationship between the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. Her research at the Graduate Theological Union currently focuses on translation studies and on the sexual transformation of Jewish communities.</p>
<p>This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of Religion.</p>
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<p><small>Adapted from a post <a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/news/news/?story_id=969057">http://apps.carleton.edu/news/news/?story_id=969057</a></small></p>
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</ul>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:18:33 +0000cjs1230 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/news/naomi-seidman-deliver-carleton-college%E2%80%99s-forkosh-lecture-judaic-studies#commentsCIS and CJS Co-host Annual Madrasa-Midrasha Day of Learning on Jews and Muslims in the Mediahttp://gtu.edu/news/cis-cjs-co-host-annual-madrasa-midrasha-day-learning-jews-muslims-media
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Participants </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">for the <a href="http://www.gtu.edu/cjs">Center for Jewish Studies</a>' and <a href="http://www.gtu.edu/cis">Center for Islamic Studies</a>' annual Madrasa-Midrasha Day of Learning </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">gathered at Easton Hall </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">on Sunday, February 10, </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">for a day of exploration into the history, contributions, and representations of Jews and Muslims on a variety of American media platforms. Beginning with welcomes from both centers and an introduction to this year's theme, <em>Reel Jews &amp; Muslims: Representations of Jews and Muslims in American Media</em>, </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Munir Jiwa, </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Director of the Center for Islamic Studies, gave </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">opening remarks. Soon-to-be graduates Shaina Hammerman of CJS </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">and Som Pourfarzaneh of CIS led the first workshops </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">on film and on social media, respectively. Two UC Berkeley graduates, Yoav Potash, a local producer and director, and Zahra Noorbakhsh, a local playwright and comedian, conducted the remaining workshops. A brief reception preceded the screening of the film<em> Arranged</em>. A Q&amp;A session with Ameena Jandali of the Islamic Networks Group and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies Naomi Seidman closed the evening.</span></span></p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Distinguished Faculty Lecture, November 8, 2012</strong></p>
<p>James Noel, H. Eugene Farlough, Jr. Chair of African American Christianity and Professor of American Religion, San Francisco Theological School.</p>
<p>Respondent: Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union.</p>
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</ul>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:01:29 +0000communications1114 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/video/black-religion-atlantic-world-during-age-revolution-excavating-sublime#commentsNoel named 2012 Distinguished Faculty Lecturerhttp://gtu.edu/news/noel-named-2012-distinguished-faculty-lecturer
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img alt="James Noel" src="http://sfts.edu/images/newsstoryphotos/noel.jpg" style="width: 255px; height: 313px; float: right; margin: 6px;" />Rev. Dr. James Noel of San Francisco Theological Seminary will be honored as the Graduate Theological Union Distinguished Faculty Lecturer on Nov. 8 in Berkeley, Calif.</p>
<p>The GTU, one of the largest partnerships of seminaries and graduate schools in the United States, celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2012. Each November, the GTU faculty honors a distinguished professor who embodies the scholarly standards, teaching excellence and commitment to ecumenism that define the GTU. Nominations are considered by the Council of Deans, which selects the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.</p>
<p>Noel is the H. Eugene Farlough, Jr. Chair of African American Christianity and Professor of American Religion at SFTS. His lecture is entitled “Black Religion in the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolution: Excavating the ‘Sublime.’”</p>
<p>"I am very surprised, humbled and excited about receiving this honor," Noel said. "My lecture will relate several things that are never brought together in most discourses about modernity: revolution, the aesthetic category of 'the sublime' and black religion. I will be using some of William Turner’s paintings along with Edmund Burke’s <em>A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful </em>to engage in the type of excavation I am proposing."</p>
<p>The <a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/events/2012-distinguished-faculty-lecture">lecture</a> will be held at the Pacific School of Religion Chapel of the Great Commission, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, from 7-9 p.m. Dr. Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies (GTU), will be the respondent. A reception will be held in the Badé Museum afterward.</p>
<p>Noel is a widely popular professor at SFTS and the GTU and also graduated from both institutions. He earned his Master of Divinity from SFTS in 1975 and completed his Doctor of Philosophy from the GTU in 2000.</p>
<p>In addition to his responsibilities as a professor at SFTS and the GTU, Noel is director of the GTU’s Black Church/Africana Religious Studies Program. He also serves as interim pastor at New Liberation Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, is an accomplished painter and 7th dan Tae Kwon Do Master.</p>
<p>His published works include <em>Black Religion &amp; the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World</em> (Palgrave 2009) and <em>The Passion of the Lord: African American Reflections</em>. Noel's play, <em>The Black Experience in Poetry and Song</em>, has been performed nationally and internationally.</p>
<p>"What I notice is that black people and their religions rarely constitute items of theoretical reflection in academic discourses on modernity and post-modernity," Noel explained. "The nature of the West is never illuminated by what blacks undergo by the West — its cultural identity is self-generated. Blackness remains marginal even when such categories as alterity, hybridity and otherness are invoked. This lecture will offer me the opportunity to extend what I began reflection on in <em>Black Religion &amp; the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World</em> and clarify the research I will be doing on my sabbatical this Fall semester by sharing my thinking with my distinguished GTU colleagues."</p>
<p>Noel challenges boundaries whenever they threaten to obscure or resist truth, and students experience this in the classroom. His interdisciplinary method of scholarship aids students in investigating the ways in which culture creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations and power.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gtu.edu/news-events/events/lecture-address/dfl">Learn more about past Distinguished Lecturers or listen to previous lectures</a></p>
<p><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/news-events/currents/fall-2009/the-moan-and-the-shout">"The Moan and the Shout" - James Noel on the African American Religious Experience</a></p>
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</ul>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:56:18 +0000communications878 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/news/noel-named-2012-distinguished-faculty-lecturer#comments2012 Distinguished Faculty Lecturehttp://gtu.edu/events/2012-distinguished-faculty-lecture
<div class="field field-name-field-event-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Dates:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-11-08T19:00:00-08:00">Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 7:00pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img alt="James Noel" src="/sites/default/files/images/gtu-old/noel.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 301px; margin: 6px; float: right;" />Dr. James Noel, H. Eugene Farlough, Jr. Professor of African American Christianity at SFTS will deliver this year’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture entitled “Black Religion in the Atlantic World During the Age of Revolution: Excavating the ‘Sublime.’”</p>
<p>Dr. Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies (GTU) will be the respondent.</p>
<p>The lecture will be held in the Chapel of the Great Commission, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, and will be followed by a reception in the Badé Museum. The reception is co-sponsored by CARE and is held in conjunction with the "Sunday Spirit" exhibition in the Doug Adams Gallery.</p>
<p> <a href="/sites/default/files/users/gtudean/Distinguished-Faculty-Lecture-2012-Flyer.pdf">Check out the flyer here</a></p>
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</ul>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:30:50 +0000gtu_admin349 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/events/2012-distinguished-faculty-lecture#commentsNaomi Sheindel Seidmanhttp://gtu.edu/academics/faculty-directory/o-q/seidman-naomi-sheindel-gtu
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]" target="_blank"><em>Graduate Theological Union</em></a><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/users/gtudean/Seidman%2C%20Naomi.jpg" style="width: 126px; height: 181px; float: right;" /><br /><em>Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies<br />
Core Doctoral Faculty Member </em></p>
<p>At GTU since 1995</p>
<p>Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1995<br />
M.A., University of California, Davis 1984<br />
B.A., Brooklyn College 1981</p>
<p>Phone: 510/649-2482<br />
E-mail: <a href="mailto:naomi@gtu.edu">naomi@gtu.edu</a></p>
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<strong>Current Research and Teaching Interests</strong></h4>
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Translation Studies; Translating the Bible</li>
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The Sexual Transformation of Ashkenaz; Haskalah Literature</li>
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<strong>Selected Publications</strong></h4>
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<em>Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation, </em>University of Chicago Press, 2006<em>.</em></li>
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<em>A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish, </em>University of California Press, 1997.</li>
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<em>The First Day and Other Stories</em>, written by Dvora Baron, translated by Naomi Seidman with<br />
Chana Kronfeld, edited by Chana Kronfeld and Naomi Seidman, University of California Press, 2001.</li>
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<em>Conversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer</em>, written by Amia Lieblich, translated by Naomi Seidman, edited by Chana Kronfeld and Naomi Seidman, University of California Press, 1997.</li>
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“Finding the Woman of Valor: The JPS 1917 Translation in the Light of the King<br />
James,” in <em>Ideology, Culture, and Translation: Assessing the Genius of the King<br />
James Version as Bible Translation and Literary Influence</em>, eds. David Burke,<br />
John Kutsko, and Philip Towner, Society of Biblical Literature, 2013.</li>
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</ul>Mon, 07 May 2012 13:57:04 +0000admin164 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/academics/faculty-directory/o-q/seidman-naomi-sheindel-gtu#commentsExploring Expressions of Orthodox Judaismhttp://gtu.edu/news/exploring-expressions-of-orthodox-judaism
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p align="center"><img align="none" alt="Formations of Orthodoxy Conference" border="0" height="125" hspace="3" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/c/0/b/c0b84ed947/fe8c446333/e783a69dd5/library/Orthodoxy%20Conf%20005.JPG" title="Formations of Orthodoxy Conference" width="250" /><img align="none" alt="MichaelSchudrich" border="0" height="125" hspace="3" id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/c/0/b/c0b84ed947/fe8c446333/e783a69dd5/library/MichaelSchudrich.JPG" title="MichaelSchudrich" width="125" /></p>
<p>It was standing room only in Easton Hall for the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies' lively November 29 conference “Formations of Orthodoxy,” which explored Orthodox Jewish cultural formations in interwar Poland and post-Holocaust America.</p>
<p>Nathaniel Deutsch from UC Santa Cruz discussed the surprising role of ethnographical awareness in determining Orthodox observance in interwar Poland, while David Myers from UCLA introduced the ultra-Orthodox enclave of Kiryas Joel, in upstate New York, through an analysis of the expansion of Orthodox practice to the public sphere. Naomi Seidman, director of CJS (left picture), spoke about the (probably apocryphal) martyrological Holocaust narrative of the ninety-three Orthodox girls who committed suicide rather than be taken into a Nazi brothel.</p>
<p>The evening ended with a keynote talk by Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland (right picture). Schudrich, in conversation with Shana Penn, visiting scholar at CJS, brought the discussion back to where it began, with Orthodoxy in Poland, focusing on contemporary Orthodoxy and its place in a wider religious and secular Jewish spectrum. Rabbi Schudrich also spoke more generally of the role of Jewish observance in creating new forms of community in contemporary Poland, where a small but growing number of Poles have begun to explore their Jewish ancestry.</p>
<p><a href="/multimedia/acadaudio">Listen to all of the presentations from the conference.</a></p>
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</ul>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:00:00 +0000communications841 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/news/exploring-expressions-of-orthodox-judaism#commentsWho among us is good? … and who is “us”?http://gtu.edu/news/the-good-person
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>by Arthur Holder, Academic Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs (taken from the March 2011 Dean's Newsletter, "Reading Sacred Texts Interreligiously")</p>
<p><img alt="Nargis Virani, Naomi Seidman, Arthur Holder, Munir Jiwa at the Western Wall in Jerusalem" src="[GTU_HOME_URL]/sites/default/files/images/gtu-old/WesternWallNViraniNSeidmanAHolderMJiwa.JPG" style="width: 300px; height: 245px; float: right; margin: 6px;" />Literary critics and theologians often talk about "interpretive communities" and "capable readers." Who has the ability--and even the right--to interpret a text, especially a sacred text that bears authority in a particular religious tradition?</p>
<p>Last month I participated in a weeklong interreligious Theology Conference at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem along with Naomi Seidman (Director, Center for Jewish Studies), Munir Jiwa (Director, Center for Islamic Studies), and Nargis Virani (visiting faculty, Center for Islamic Studies). The theme of the conference was “What makes a good person?” Small groups involving participants from all three traditions studied key sacred texts together, working both in the original languages and in English translation.</p>
<p>So what makes a good person? Nearly all the small groups concluded that we know one when we see one. We also noted that all three traditions provide some clear rules for good behavior while continually stressing the need to go beyond the letter of the law. Being good is more than just doing what is right (though it certainly includes that). The truly good person is often the "secret saint" who marches to a different drummer by challenging the norms of the society and even of the religious community itself. There is no single set of principles or rules that will turn us into good people all at once. We have to make those hard choices every day in response to the demands of our time and place. In order to be good, we have to take the risk of being wrong.</p>
<p>Since the shared study of sacred texts from different traditions has been a hallmark of our own interreligious programming here at the GTU, my colleagues and I were glad to expand our pedagogical and theological perspectives in discussion with more than fifty distinguished Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars from around the world. We also visited sacred sites of all three religions and attended worship services of the three traditions as we prayed for justice, peace, and mutual understanding in that beautiful but perennially conflicted city.</p>
<p>One insight that came to me during the conference was that in our religiously pluralistic and culturally interdependent global village today, all of our interpretive communities need to include people beyond the borders of our particular religious traditions. Jews can read Christian texts; Buddhists can read Torah; Christians can read the Qur'an. These crossreadings benefit not only those outside a tradition, but the insiders as well. The outsider perspective often brings new appreciations as well as provocative challenges. At the GTU, we enjoy this privilege every day as we share our classrooms and worship spaces with one another. It was wonderful to go to Jerusalem, and it is good to be home.</p>
<p>Read more in the <a href="http://www.hartman.org.il/SHINews_View.asp?Article_Id=636&amp;Cat_Id=303&amp;Cat_Type=SHINews">Shalom Hartman Institute News</a></p>
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